Copycat Panera Bread Summer Corn Chowder

This soup is excellent. I have also made it by adding diced leftover lemon chicken and the leftover sauce (it's the Chicken Francese recipe from the New York Times). It negates the necessity of adding any additional acid, but add extra lime or lemon if you wish. The sauce gives this great soup an extra level of richness and makes a nice savory main dish.

I doubled the recipe; I almost always do that because my husband and I eat a lot, lol. It is tasty - BUT - my 1/4" cubed red potatoes never got really soft. They're soft enough to eat, but they didn't sort of partially melt into the soup which I assume is what is supposed to happen. I troubleshot online and apparently, if you add your wine or acid before adding the potatoes, they won't soften all the way. This doesn't seem to've happened to anyone else on here; it may've been because I didn't want to buy the mirin - as it was I spent $66 on ingredients (which probably isn't 25% of what I'd be charged by Panera for a like amount). So I used white wine vinegar instead. I also took the advice of someone else who commented and said the 3/4 C salsa was way too much; I only added less than half that. Next time, I'll use russet potatoes, and I'll cook them separately til soft, then add them to the soup.

Love this soup recipe! Have made it several times and turns out better than Panera each time! Would suggest cutting out either the lime or the vinegar and just doing one or the other, it was too tangy for me when I used both. Didn't make any other changes to it!

My all time favorite corn chowder soup!!! It taste better than the one at Panera. The only thing I do differently is that I leave the jalapeño seeds to give the soup a little spicy quick.

DELICIOUS!!! My whole family devoured this chowder.

I’m so impressed with this recipe! Much better than the Panera version. So much flavor too, definitely going to make this again!

Amazingly delicious! Sooo much depth of many flavors. Love it.

This is always a hit when I take it to gatherings. I add diced chicken and may put slightly more of the veggies in it to make it a fuller chowder, but it's amazing as is! Thank you for sharing!

I make this a few times a year. I did add a bit too much cayenne for me, but everyone else loved it! I double the batch because one batch is never enough! I just made it today as it is very cool where I live. When I make it again in the fall, I usually bake my own bread bowls! I have been told this is actually BETTER than Panera's because it tastes fresher.

This is absolutely amazing! Has anyone tried freezing it, think it would be okay?

This is an excellent copycat! This is one of my favorite soups and I'm so happy to find a recipe that tastes just like it. I also used frozen corn and went a little heavy on the spices.

This tasted so close to Panera. I blended mine up a bit to make it a little creamier and it was perfect.

This turned out very good indeed and I liked it better than the actual Panera version it copies. It was a bit thinner than I like but had excellent flavor and bite. Sweet white corn was on sale. I think when I make it next time I will reduce the broth a bit to thicken it up some. For leftover soup I added some chicken and crispy bacon because I'm a carnivore at heart and it was even better!

I just made this and it’s DELICIOUS! My favorite soup. It tastes just like Panera’s. I used frozen sweet corn and went a little heavy on the spices but still came out amazingly!

Excellent as written. Closest flavor to Panera I've tried.